Oscar on cover of the ring magazine's next issue

if it was my magazine i would be too

 

So? He's still fighting and he's promoting. He's hugely relevant in boxing at the time regardless of his stature as a fighter.

 

What has he done recently? He hasn't won since May of 06

 

seriously, you can't be surprised

 

Obviously because he bought Ring Mag, he CANNOT be on the cover despite being boxing biggest star with three (so he says) fights this year and a retirement?

I've been called a DLH hater more times then i can remember, but even I am aware this isn't a big deal. Mountains out of mole hill....the ESB way I guess.

 

:deal Its all aobut business...if oscar and tyson are even remotely relevant, they will still grace magazine covers.

 

Lets just hope he doesn't go all Oprah and put himself on every cover.

 

When I read the title I immediately of OSCAR LARIOS......and not delahoya.

 

I guess thats why he is putting himself on the cover!!

 

:rofl haha, its almost unfair

 

Well he owns it.

 

So far, since the acquisition of The Ring by a GBP subsidiary, there actually hasn't been any bias in favor of Oscar in the articles.

Writers, such as William Detloff, have been critical of him just like any other guy.

Most of it isn't available on-line, but here's one article.

http://thering-online.com/ringpages/ringupdatearchive.html#boxing011408


MAYWEATHER-DE LA HOYA II: THE WORLD SNORES (January 14, 2008)

By William Dettloff

If you thought the fight game shot its load in 2007, you haven’t taken a look at the schedule lately for ’08. Lots of excellent matchups are either made already or said to be in the works.

The Kelly Pavlik-Jermain Taylor rematch is a mere month away. The rubber match between Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez comes right after. Two weeks later is Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II. Chad Dawson against Glen Johnson is said to be done. Same with Juan Diaz-Nate Campbell. Maybe Joel Casamayor against Michael Katsidis, too.

Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe is close to being done, reportedly. Same with Antonio Tarver-Jeff Lacy. Also being worked on, it is rumored, is Floyd Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya II.

That’s right. An ugly rumor made its way around the Internet late last week that De La Hoya is lobbying hard for a rematch to his loss last year to Mayweather in the richest fight in history—humbly billed “The World Awaits”—and that the two sides are hammering away at one another.

Here’s the question: Why?

I know: Mayweather and De La Hoya probably can each count 30 million reasons to get together again. But what does that matter to us?

Let’s face it: Their first meeting was better than, say, Hopkins’ win over Winky Wright, but not by much. It was taut and well boxed and competitive. But there was little drama. It was a reasonably good fight, but nothing very memorable. There wasn’t a moment until the last 20 seconds when either guy really opened up and took real risks.

And that’s the problem. Both guys are too wealthy and too successful to be desperate anymore, or even particularly hungry. Their lives are too good. They’ve got too much to lose.

I can’t blame them. If I had their money, I’d never risk getting off the couch. It’s a dangerous world out there. Why take chances?

But they still like the giant paychecks and the sycophants and the attention and everything else that goes with being superstar athletes, so they keep fighting—sort of. It’s boxing still, but not remotely the way they did it on the way up. If they’re honest, they’ll admit as much and, in fact, Mayweather did just that during HBO’s Mayweather/Hatton 24/7 series.

To make matter worse, their styles are such that they just won’t make any great moments together. Mayweather is a boxer through and through and De La Hoya is a born counterpuncher.

In my mind, it doesn’t even matter that Mayweather barely edged De La Hoya in the first one and that, had De La Hoya not inexplicably abandoned his jab late in the fight, he might have pulled off the upset. A decision victory would have been for De La Hoya a great accomplishment; it would not have made it a great fight.

There is one fighter with whose team Mayweather should be negotiating, and that’s Miguel Cotto. Any fight other than that is just showbiz, just confirmation that Mayweather’s no longer in love with the idea of being a great fighter, but with being a great businessman.

There are myriad options for De La Hoya if he’s still serious about being a fighter. Who wouldn’t like to see him against Vernon Forrest, or Cotto? How about Paul Williams, or Kermit Cintron, or even Shane Mosley again? And what if Felix Trinidad beats Roy Jones this weekend? De La Hoya-Trinidad II might sell a few pay-per-views, no?

Mayweather-De La Hoya II? It doesn’t break the top 20 of rematches I’d pay to see.




Also, on the year-end issue of Mayweather winning fighter of the year, when discussing the DLH fight, they talked about DLH looking "foolish and he wailed his arms like an amateur, missing his shots".

 

He just put together the fight you seemed to have enjoyed this weekened, that's what he's done.atsch